Here I consider a couple of other responses to skepticism interesting in their own right. Both Externalist and Internalist responses also try to refute skepticism too.

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Internalist views could be said to lead to considering normativity as an issue in Epistemology. That is, what it is we ’should’ or ‘ought’ to believe in various situations such as defining justification or knowledge. For example, whether we should deny situations like the Evil Demon one below, simply because we have to grant ourselves [...]

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We have our basic Justified True Belief (JTB) account of knowledge.
Subject (S) knows something (p) iff:
(P1) p is true
(P2) S believes that p
(P3) S is justified in believing that p.

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Tricky, tricky. What a mess of a debate this is. I’ll give it my best shot to clarify.
First of all, we need to be aware of the distinctions between Externalism about Knowledge (KE) and Internalism about Knowledge (KI). And also, the difference between Externalism about Justification (JE) and Internalism about Justification (JI).

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